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CNET News: IBM Overhauls iSeries for the Long Haul

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Stephen Shankland
Aug 9, 2004

“It’s been a pattern for years in the server market: A powerful
new machine arrives, grows popular, then fades into history as the
industry moves to fresh designs. Loyalists are left in the
lurch.

“The OpenVMS machines led Digital Equipment Corp. to glory, but
their current owner, Hewlett-Packard, rarely even mentions them
anymore. Prime and Data General expired altogether. The
once-diverse mainframe gene pool has dwindled almost to one
lineage…”


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